Changes in BitBake 1.8.x:
+ - Add bb.utils.prune_suffix function
+ - Fix hg checkouts of specific revisions (from Poky)
+ - Fix wget fetching of urls with parameters specified (from Poky)
+ - Add username handling to git fetcher (from Poky)
+ - Set HOME environmental variable when running fetcher commands (from Poky)
+ - Make sure allowed variables inherited from the environment are exported again (from Poky)
+ - When running a stage task in bbshell, run populate_staging, not the stage task (from Poky)
+ - Fix + character escaping from PACKAGES_DYNAMIC (thanks Otavio Salvador)
+
+Changes in BitBake 1.8.12:
- Fix -f (force) in conjunction with -b
- Fix exit code for build failures in --continue mode
- Fix git branch tags fetching
- Allow to checkout CVS by Date and Time. Just add HHmm to the SRCDATE.
- Move prunedir function to utils.py and add explode_dep_versions function
- Raise an exception if SRCREV == 'INVALID'
+ - Fix hg fetcher username/password handling and fix crash
+ - Fix PACKAGES_DYNAMIC handling of packages with '++' in the name
+ - Rename __depends to __base_depends after configuration parsing so we don't
+ recheck the validity of the config files time after time
+ - Add better environmental variable handling. By default it will now only pass certain
+ whitelisted variables into the data store. If BB_PRESERVE_ENV is set bitbake will use
+ all variable from the environment. If BB_ENV_WHITELIST is set, that whitelist will be
+ used instead of the internal bitbake one. Alternatively, BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE can be used
+ to extend the internal whitelist.
+ - Perforce fetcher fix to use commandline options instead of being overriden by the environment
+ - use @rev when doing a svn checkout
+ - Add osc fetcher (from Joshua Lock in Poky)
+ - When SRCREV autorevisioning for a recipe is in use, don't cache the recipe
+ - Add tryaltconfigs option to control whether bitbake trys using alternative providers
+ to fulfil failed dependencies. It defaults to off, changing the default since this
+ behaviour confuses many users and isn't often useful.
+ - Improve lock file function error handling
+ - Add username handling to the git fetcher (Robert Bragg)
+ - Add support for HTTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY_IGNORE variables to the wget fetcher
+ - Export more variables to the fetcher commands to allow ssh checkouts and checkouts through
+ proxies to work better. (from Poky)
+ - Also allow user and pswd options in SRC_URIs globally (from Poky)
+ - Improve proxy handling when using mirrors (from Poky)
+ - Addition of BBCLASSEXTEND support for allowing one recipe to provide multiple targets (from Poky)
Changes in BitBake 1.8.10:
- Psyco is available only for x86 - do not use it on other architectures.
- Add support for branches in git fetcher (Otavio Salvador, Michael Lauer)
- Make taskdata and runqueue errors more user friendly
- Add norecurse and fullpath options to cvs fetcher
+ - bb.utils.prunedir can cope with symlinks to directories without exceptions
Changes in Bitbake 1.8.8:
- Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier